I think user5994461 meant that calling windows backwards compatibility "terrific" doesn't do it justice. My dad wrote software more than 2 decades ago that, amazingly enough, still runs on Windows 10 and he still uses it.
I think that title must be given to OS/360. Usable backwards compatibility for half a century, and counting.
Windows backwards compatibility took a dramatic turn for the worse with Windows 7 when they decided to run old software in a VM instead of keeping compatibility. People had to turn to DOSBox instead, which perhaps ironically was originally made for things like Linux to run DOS software.
> Windows is most backward compatible software in existence.
You were downvoted for saying this, but anybody who has read the Old New Thing blog (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/) or Raymond Chen's chapter on Windows backwards compatibility (http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780321440303/samplech..., PDF) will be both impressed and horrified at the lengths the Windows team went to in order to avoid breaking programs.
I think that's what danieldk meant. Terrific != terrible (english is not my primary language so I might be wrong)
You are correct
I think user5994461 meant that calling windows backwards compatibility "terrific" doesn't do it justice. My dad wrote software more than 2 decades ago that, amazingly enough, still runs on Windows 10 and he still uses it.
Out of curiosity, what is that software?
And they had a subsystem for 16-bit OS/2 applications until Windows 2000:
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windowsnt/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Microsoft_Window...
I think that title must be given to OS/360. Usable backwards compatibility for half a century, and counting.
Windows backwards compatibility took a dramatic turn for the worse with Windows 7 when they decided to run old software in a VM instead of keeping compatibility. People had to turn to DOSBox instead, which perhaps ironically was originally made for things like Linux to run DOS software.